News
Two recent EPSRC grant awards
Congratulations to Angus Wilkinson and Feliciano Giustino who have both had new grants announced by the EPSRC.
Launch of EPSRC National Facility for Aberration-Corrected STEM
ESPRC has awarded £4.5M to a consortium of five universities to operate SuperSTEM as an EPSRC Mid-Range Facility for the next five years.
New High Temperature Nanotest Equipment
Unique nanoindentation equipment has been installed for testing nuclear materials between -30°C and 750°C.
Materials graduates ranked as top Oxford earners
The Times Higher Education magazine recently highlighted Oxford’s published data from the survey of Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education.
Publications
Novel SEM-based diffraction method for characterising nitride thin films
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 135503 (2012) doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.135503
Fracture toughness of Individual Grain Boundaries
Phil Mag. Letts. 91, 2011, 394-400 doi:10.1080/09500839.2011.573813
Chemistry at the nanoscale: synthesis of an N@C60-N@C60 endohedral fullerene dimer
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 1–5 doi:10.1002/anie.201107490
Understanding structures of amorphous materials
Science 24 February 2012: Vol. 335 no. 6071 pp. 950-953 doi:10.1126/science.1214780
Researchers from the Department of Materials have synthesised a dyad of two radical centres
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (4), pp 1938–1941
Events
Oxford University Open Days
27th and 28th June 2012
Nuclear Materials Short Course
3-7 September 2012
Workshop on oxide-dispersion strengthened alloys for nuclear applications
24-26 September 2012
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Research Seminars >
Comparison of EBSD derived lattice rotations with surface rotations measured using high resolution DIC
17th May 2012 (Thursday 4pm)
Nano-engineered materials from carbon: opportunities and challenges
11th June 2012 (Monday 1.15pm)
Dynamics of localized phonons in semiconductors: isotope effects
3rd August 2012 (Friday 2pm)
